Falling Asleep

Famous quotes containing the words falling and/or asleep:

    “For a long time, I went to bed early. Sometimes, my candle barely put out, my eyes closed so quickly that I did not have the time to say to myself: “I am falling asleep”.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    ““... Or how should love be worth its pains were it not
    That when he has fallen asleep within my arms,
    Being wearied out, I love in man the child?
    What can they know of love that do not know
    She builds her nest upon a narrow ledge
    Above a windy precipice?””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)